Bio.
Emanuela Milleri is an Italian visual artist who lives and works in Tuscany.
She graduated with honors in Conservation of Cultural Heritage from the University of Siena and for many years worked in the field of cataloging and management of cultural heritage.
She subsequently decided to devote herself to artistic research, developing a path that crosses drawing, comics, and, more recently, three-dimensionality and light.
Her imagery is strongly influenced by cinema, music, and the history of art of the early twentieth century.
She has published the graphic novels The Horizon Café (2020) and The Evil Deer (2021) for the British publisher Markosia Enterprises, and has a graphic novel for children in progress, “Luna and a Special Night.” After several years dedicated to comics, she undertook broader research on sign and figure, working on paper, ceramics, and light works.
Statement.
“My work begins with drawing, passes through paper, narration, material and light which becomes a further state of the image“.
My work begins with drawing as the original structure of the image, a place where the sign constructs figures that do not belong to a defined space, but to an interior dimension, poised between reality and fiction.
The emerging forms seem to linger in a dilated state, influenced by cinema and music, where the narrative is never entirely explicit and the atmosphere has the same weight as the narration. The images are constructed through allusions, allowing the emotional climate to guide their interpretation.
For several years I worked in comics, constructing images over time through a logic of relationship and rhythm. Later, I felt the need to remove these figures from the rhythm of the page, allowing them to exist outside the narrative, as autonomous presences.
The transition from paper to three-dimensionality, and subsequently to light, represents a continuity in my research. The line remains central and returns in different forms, maintaining a constant identity that evokes a melancholic and deferred dimension.